Smith v. Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co.

Opinion by

Portee, J.,

The appellant is a property owner in Butler Township, Schuylkill County, and availing itself of the provisions of the Act of July 14, 1917, P. L. 840, had entered into a contract with the township to keep the public roads in repair, and had a number of men regularly employed in work upon the roads. Part of the appliances and machines used upon the roads were dump wagons and scrapers. The plaintiff was a carpenter, who lived and had a shop at Lavelle, Schuylkill County, doing work for such individuals and companies as employed him, by the day at carpenters’ wages, and also…